Braiding-guide for sewing-machines.



No. 689,924. Patented Dec. 3|, mm. B. H. SLOAN.

BRAIDING GUIDE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

(Application filed Apr. 30, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES:

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ROSINE H. SLOAN, OF NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA.

BRAIDING-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,924, dated December31, 1901.

Application filed April 30, 1901. $eria1No. 58,161. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROSINE H. SLOAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Nebraska City, in the county of Otoe and State of Nebraska,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Braiding-Guides forSewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention is a braidinguide for sewing-machines which enables theoperator to trim goods without first basting the trimming thereon.

My device consists of a plate adapted to be held to the machine and ofmeans for holding the trimming in proper position as it is being sewedto the goods.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View ofmyattachment attached to a rod, which is secured to the presser-foot ofa sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1, theattaching-arm, rod, and foot of the machine not being shown. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of one of the guides. Fig. 4 is a perspective View ofthe other guide. Fig. 5 is a face View of the attachment with theattaching-arm left off. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one edge of thelower plate, showing a loop under which the trimming is run and themeans for securing one end of the last-mentioned guide to the plate.Fig. 7 shows the face of the swell and the under end of the sleeve bywhich a thumblatch is secured to said plate.

My invention is described as follows:

1 represents the plate of the attachment. This plate is provided with anarm 2, which extends forward and turns over a rod 3 and is secured tothe said rod by means of a thumb-screw t. This rod 3 is secured in anopening in the rear part of the machine-foot 5 by a thumb-screw (3. Thisis one of the means of securing the said attachment to a sewing-machine;but as allsewing-machines are not provided with the said rod 3 saidattachment may be secured to the sewing-machine by a thumb'screw passingthrough a perforation 7 in said plate and a threaded perforation in theplate of the machine, using a washer between the plate of the machineand the attachment in order to raise it a little, that the goods to bebraided or trimmed may pass under the attachment, or the attachment maybe secured to the machine in any other substantial way, the inventionnot consisting of the manner in which it is attached to the machine, butof the combination of its parts, which enable the operator to braid ortrim goods without first basting the same to the goods.

The plate 1 is provided with two longitudinal slots 8, which run nearlythe entire length of the plate and are parallel to each other. A slidingguide 9 fits on the top of the plate and has a cross-head 10, withdownwardly-extending flanges 11, which lit and work back and forth inthe slots 8, and extending upwardly and at right angles to the head 10is a flange 12, against which one edge of the trimming works. Said guideis provided with a longitudinal slot 13, and in said longitudinal slot13 works a thumb-screw 14, which enters a perforation in the plate 1,said guide being adapted to slide back and forth, so that any reasonablewidth of trimming may be accommodated, and when the guide is properlyset it is secured in place by said thumb-screw. On the near side-thatis, the side nearest the operator-is a loop 15, which extends nearly theentire length of the plate, its ends secured to the plate and leaving aspacebetween the plate and the loop for the trimming to run. Thus thetrimming is held in position between the lower end of the loop 15 andthe lower end of the guide 9. To the nearest edge of the plate issecured a right-angle guide 16. Said guide has in its right-hand end alongitudinal slot 17, so that it may be shifted to the right or to theleft, and is secured in place by a thumb-screw 1S. Extending from thenear side of the plate is a perforated projection 19, to which ispivoted a thumb-latch 20, adapted to work over said right-angle guide 16and hold the same in place. This thumblatch cooperates with thethumb-screw 18. The right-angle part 21 of this rightangle guide extendsrearwardly on a parallel line with the left-hand end of the plate 1.

In operation the goods to be braided or trimmed work under the plate,and the trimming passes over the guide 16 and under the loop 15, itsright-hand edge working against down and bring the trimming up over theleft-hand end of the plate 1, its right edge,

the flange 12'. Thus the trimming is held in position while the goodspasses along under the foot of the machine, and the trimming may bestitched to the goods in its center at its right edge orleft edge, andin order to measure the distance between the trimming the right-anglepart 21 is shoved to the left or to the right, thus measuring thedistance We want between the trimming. If we wish to stitch the trimmingon each edge, We first stitch it on its left edge, and then when so.

stitched We slip the goods and the trimming parallel to each other; aslotted guide, having flanges and running to the right and left in saidslots; a thumb-screw securing the said guide in place; a loop havingeach end secured to the plate, and leaving between the plate and theloop, a space; a right-angle guide :having in one end a longitudinalslot and secured to the plate by a thumb-screw; a perforated projectionextending from the near edge of the plate and a thumb-latch pivoted tosaid projection, and adapted to cooperate with the thumb-screw, forholding said last-mentioned guide in place; said attach ment adapted tobe secured to a'sewing-mav chine in any substantial way, substantiallyas shown and described and for the purposes Witnesses:

W. B. SLoAN, JoY F. SIPPLE.

